Despite visiting Loose Women as his on-stage alter-ego, Johnny didn’t ask the panel to call him Sarah, saying: ‘I haven’t had a sex change. Sarah has just been locked up in a cupboard [until now]. It’s just a bit of fun.

‘I wanted this look on The X Factor but they wouldn’t let me do it because they, sort of like, say “You’ve gotta do this one, you’ve got to do that one”‘.

‘It was a little bit too revolutionary for them. Before my time,’ he explained.

The wannabe pop sensation also boasted that upon entering the Loose Women studio, a cab driver mistook him for Katie Price.

Johnny said: ‘I was getting out of the taxi and the driver yelled: “Oi Katie! You look gorgeous”.’

Promoting his music on the show, including single Eaten Alive which he released via his own label, Johnny remarked that he can find success ‘without Simon Cowell’.

Reflecting on his first TV appearance, Johnny also revealed that despite the fact that he had not provided a ‘sob story’ on The X Factor, he was suffering from PTSD at that time after losing his father to cancer.

‘I had lost my father in 2008,’ he said. ‘I auditioned in 2011. He had lung cancer and two brain tumours. He didn’t want to go into a hospice so I took care of him.

‘He was 12 weeks from diagnosis to death. I had a nervous breakdown and PTSD. I didn’t look too good on TV at the time. I lost weight. I wasn’t well.’

Johnny back in 2011 when he was on The X Factor (Picture: Rex)

Despite not getting further than the fifth live show in 2011, Johnny insisted that the best X Factor acts are the novelty ones, because they ‘stick in your head’.

On the show’s current contestants, he added: ‘Honey G. I say good luck to her. She is doing what she wants to do.’